During the first months of my journal entries, I exclusively used the term "my friend" to refer to my closest friends. It gets super confusing, even for me, because I often meet up with them!
So I asked them, what they would like to be called. And well, these are their synonyms.
Andras - A good friend I've met on tumblr, because we belonged to the same emo dog bubble and listened to the same music. We still like the same kind of things (music, fashion, Pokémon, Sims!) and regularly meet up.
Razz - He accidentally added me on ICQ in 2006 and we first really started texting about one year later. I'm glad I started writing to him, because he's one of my best and closest friends!
Knödel - I met her in a roleplay chatroom back in... 2004 I guess? Although we first really started chatting in late 2005. She's one of the kindest people I know and I'm so glad we still stay in contact after all these years.
Neit - I didn't have contact to her for a long time, because she was only Knödel's friend. In the early 2010's I got to know her and she's one of the coolest and most real people I know.